Kinne, Helen · New York: The Macmillan company · leaf 27
c 3fltfE> i9$&. t*n Courtesy of the United Stales Department of Agriculture. Fig. 6. — Picking cotton. cotton bolls, as they are called, are brown and dry look-ing ; but when ripe, they burst, and the woolly lookingwhite ball pops out of its brown house, or shell (Fig. 7).In each cotton boll… … Courtesy of the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture. Fig. 7. — Cottonbolls when burstare about the sizeof a small apple. Cotton fibers differ. We shall learnhow the fiber is pulled from the seeds.This process is called ginning and isdone by a machine. If you have amiscroscope in your school,…
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